[Fwd: Chinese Demonstrators Raise Mao]

["ÁÎ×Ó¹â HenryC.K.Liu ¹ù¤l¥ú" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


This analysis was written by Stratfor, a group of former NSA types.
You are correct to raise the point.
Corruption in large measure is structural in Confucian culture which
unfortunately the socialist revolution in china has not been successful
in eradicating, despite the penalties suffered in the decade long
Cultural Revolution.  Capitalism permits corruption to manifest in
financial terms.
AS for hostility toward foreign ideas, the socialist revolution itself
has been attacked as a Western (Marxist) virus by Confucians.
Mao has always advocate an approach of adopting what is right and
useful, regardless of foreign origin.   Nevertheless, what may work in
non-Chinese conditions, may not always work under Chinese conditions,
especially in a age when the WEst has been largely taken over by
capitalist neo-liberalism and neo-imperilaism.

China, with a recorded history of more than 4 millennia, is not a
cultural blank page on which modern socialism's two centuries of history
can easily remold.  Many Chinese revolutionaries have begun to accept a
sense of humility about the singular dimension emphasis of their Marxist
outlook. Increasing, the history of Christianity shows parallel in the
historical development of socialism and ecclesiastical politics have
parallels in party politics.

Socialism may have to become an adjective rather than an end product.

Henry C.K. Liu

TAHIR WOOD wrote:

> >>> "ÁÎ×Ó¹â HenryC.K.Liu  ¹ù¤l¥ú" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 02/01 4:35 PM >>>
> Stratfor.com
>
> While I think it is greatly to be welcomed that Mao is
> appearing again as a political icon for demonstrators in
> China, I cannot help but note with a feeling of disquiet the
> way that corruption is equated with 'foreign influence',
> rather than with political factors relating to class, party
> and ideology. The sort of nationalism reflected in the
> quoted phrase below really does not inspire me:
>
>  "Western ideas were not allowed to infect the Chinese
> populace."
>
> Does this "infection" also refer to such European thinkers
> as Marx and Engels, amongst others? I was one who was hoping
> that the future revolutionary renewal in China would
> represent an advance on some of the more quaint notions of
> Maoism, while building on its undeniably solid elements.
>
> Tahir
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>




--------------------------------------------------------------------------------